RE: A bicycle that produces drinking water may help thirsty villages
The article says to put the bike on a stand once you have a water source. If it is only a stationery bike, it would have to be carried to the water source. Without it being stationery, it can be ridden to the water source. That would be more effective. While the idea of bikes in a gym pumping out water sounds good, the gym would need to have a source of ground water from which the bikes could extract and get to work.
I was thinking it would be nice for farmers in poor, arid countries. They could tap into the water table (if possible) with the bike and then pedal to irrigate their farmland. Imagine how much better their crops would grow if they just had some clean water every couple days. For them - this could be a game changer.
